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Later edition, text in Czech. 8vo. pp 126, [2] Dark grey cloth with black lettering to front and spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket, slightly rubbed at ends of spine. Without inscriptions. Related postcard and cast list for the play from 1987 production in Sokolvna, Czech Republic. A fine copy. R.U.R. is a science fiction play by Czech writer Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). The play premiered on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové, Czechia, and is believed to have introduced the word 'robot' to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.[
